Новости за 10.11.2021

President Joe Biden’s approval rate keeps hitting new lows, and for good reason.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Baseball’s most influential agent said the sport was the victim of a “competitive cancer” caused by teams unloading veterans to accumulate draft picks and said the Atlanta Braves’ World Series title was a direct result of others' tanking.

Injured Washington quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick’s recent MRI showed “progress,” coach Ron Rivera said Wednesday.

EAGAN, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook, facing a personal injury lawsuit from a former girlfriend for allegedly assaulting her during an altercation at his home last year, maintained Wednesday he was the victim in the fight.

Penn State wide receiver Jahan Dotson showed Maryland last Saturday why he could be a first-round pick in next year’s NFL Draft.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik on Wednesday endorsed eight women running for Congress next year, the latest recruits in her effort to swell the ranks of conservative women in the House GOP.

In August, a Chinese civilian rocket shot through the atmosphere, a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle sitting atop. After circling the globe in low-Earth orbit, the rocket released its payload.

Democrats, with the help of 13 House Republicans, passed a $1.2 trillion so-called infrastructure bill last week, which the Biden administration promises will lead to shovel-ready jobs come this spring.

Hundreds of pages of testimony about unwanted kisses, hugs and gropes from the investigation into sexual assault accusations against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo were released by the New York attorney general’s office Wednesday.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, one of the most powerful elected officials in the state, conceded on Wednesday that he lost reelection to the state Senate.

More than 22 million infants around the world missed their first measles shots last year, which is the largest increase in two decades and could threaten progress toward eliminating the highly infectious disease, according to a new report.

The White House estimated Wednesday that 900,000 children ages 5 to 11 will have received their first COVID-19 shot by the end of the day as President Biden looks for ways to immunize as many Americans as possible.

During the Jimmy Carter administration and the simultaneous economic disaster America was enduring, Bruce Springsteen's contemporary Bill Chinnock released an album called Badlands. The most popular song from the album, “Something for Everybody” was a commentary on the desperate economic straits many citizens were enduring. 

Seven House Republicans want the U.S. Agency for Global Media to explain why the agency's director rehired a friend at the Voice of America who was slated for dismissal for improper activities.

President Biden insisted Wednesday that his massive social spending bill will ease inflation and lower prices, going on the defensive after back-to-back grim economic reports from the Department of Labor.

The Washington Capitals' roster churn continued Wednesday morning.

The Capitals, who have put several players on injured reserve so far this season, sent youngster Hendrix Lapierre down to his junior league team and put center Nic Dowd on injured reserve with a lower-body injury.

Lapierre, 19, was the Capitals' first-round ...

When past presidents have seen their approval numbers dive, they went on foreign trips. Sometimes this works, but more often it doesn't, because failure at home often follows them abroad. World leaders can sense failure and its twin, weakness.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg repeatedly contended Wednesday morning that access to affordable child care is a root problem in the country’s supply chain and labor shortage issues.

Hard cases make bad laws. We are now watching the truth of that adage in real-time in opioid litigation proceedings in Ohio.

Celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz is laying the groundwork to enter the race for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, according to a published report.

Green Bay Packers' star quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been fielding a lot of criticisms from pundits, media types, leftists and others who think he’s compromised the health and safety of the world by refusing a coronavirus vaccine then testing positive for COVID-19 — all after suggesting he’d been vaccinated.

In the wake of the disastrous vote by the 13 House Republicans for President Biden's "infrastructure" legislation, a lot of people are understandably angry. They counted on the Republicans to recognize that the bill was not very good. Counting on politicians to recognize anything is always chancy, but in this ...

Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who provided salacious, unverified rumors to British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of lying to the FBI in a 2017 meeting.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday praised a federal judge's ruling rejecting former President Trump's request to block the National Archives from turning over documents sought by the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

There can be no doubt that the January 6th demonstration on the east side of the US Capitol got out of hand, no matter how well-intentioned the vast majority of participants may have been.  I'll leave it to witnesses, investigators and historians to determine exactly what prompted participants to push ...